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This is it. Now the main page is generated by treating 5 different RDF files through one XSL stylesheet. The power of XML to serve !

Next step will be to stop generating one flat page for everything and begin to split the whole in categorised parts, and actually make the navigation menu worth something, while improving the visual.

Stay tuned.

Well, you should switch to Firefox, then, even Microsoft tells you so.

Yesterday was held the Firefox 1.0 Party in Nagoya. Well, it was a small committee (4 people including me), but was an interesting japanese pratice, and a great korean food experience (at BSD dubu house, Ikeshita, Nagoya - nothing to do with BSD).

Interestingly, the Mozilla Store people, who are very "aware", while most of the celebrations all around the world were due to be held on this week-end, sent a mail to party organisers about the special launch party kits and the fact they could receive them in 2-3 days in the U.S. and 7-9 days elsewhere... on November 15th. Quite hard to get them in time, then.

OSGILIATH (Reuters) - Mordor Corp. warned Middle Earth kingdoms on Thursday they could face the wrath of Orc armies for harbouring and aiding Gandalf and his fellowship of hobbits instead of rightfully bowing to the will of Sauron. [...]

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Today, mozilla-firefox 1.0 finally migrated to testing, pushing the old 0.9.3-5 version onto the verge of oblivion. Thanks to Eric, JoshK and the RMs.

Today is also my release of version 1.0-2pre3.1, second preview release of upcoming 1.0-3 (which might just be this one). Help yourself. Changes include:

• an even more robust Extensions Manager,
• usage of firefox's internal locale auto-detection (making it also work with user installed languages packs),
• some cosmetic fixes,
• support for Internet search services in user profiles,
• protection of users who run firefox through sudo without -H option,
• and more...

Sorry, not sorry, not sorry either, obviously not sorry ; all this is becoming ridiculous.

Here we have the basics of the new design. Except adding some ids to the XHTML code, everything has been done without touching it. That's the power of CSS.

There are a lot of improvements to do, like avoiding overflow on the right, adjusting fonts, colors, add some graphics, but it's still better than the raw thing that used to be here until now.

I'm also working on the backend side, all in RDF. For now, it has some semantic flows, and I still haven't written all the XSLT stylesheets to transform it into XHTML, but that might come soon.

And if I find enough motivation, I'll publish some documentation about how all that has been made and works.

XP boots in an amount of time significantly lower. BeOS booted in a few seconds. What the hell is making Linux distros boot time so loooong ?

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As you may or may not know, the current trademark policy of the Mozilla Foundation makes it impossible for Debian to distribute the official logos and icons for Firefox. The package shouldn't even be called Firefox, reading this piece of blatant crap.

Anyways, as an individual, I took the right to provide these logos and icons, and create a package that will override the ones installed by the mozilla-firefox package.

The package is called mozilla-firefox-branding, is a pretty bad hack, and is available in my repository. Enjoy.

Update [2004-11-14 16:55:54+0900]: Updated to version 0.2, there was a broken thing in release 0.1.

Download, rip, burn, sample, create, distribute, spread the word.

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